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Amidst the reluctant media coverage of Idle No More exists a particularly irritating contradiction that centres on how wealth and inequality are examined.

The Occupy movement was roundly criticized by the elite's media handmaids for going after the 1%. "Why are you punishing ingenuity and hard work," the 99%ers were asked. "Why are you jealous of people who have 'made it'?"

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Members of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation are marching 450 kilometers from Toronto to Ottawa in support of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence who is on day twenty-four of a hunger strike aimed at convincing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Crown to agree to a treaty meeting with First Nations. The march started at Queen's Park Wednesday morning and I joined it for a stretch along Bloor St, across the Don River and down Danforth Avenue.

 "Canada is a test case for a grand notion - the notion that dissimilar peoples can share lands, resources, power and dreams while respecting and sustaining their differences. The story of Canada is the story of many such peoples, trying and failing and trying again, to live together in peace and harmony.

But there cannot be peace or harmony unless there is justice. It was to help restore justice to the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada, and to propose practical solutions to stubborn problems, that the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) was established."- page ix, A Word From Commissioners

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